orthodontie
\ɔʁ.to.dɔ̃.si\
The verdict
“orthodontie” is uncommon French (frequency #86,990 among 75,470 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,990
- frequency rank, French
- 75,470
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Spécialisation de la médecine dentaire dont l’objet est de corriger les mauvaises positions des dents et des mâchoires afin d’optimiser l’occlusion.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orthodontie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.to.dɔ̃.si\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #86,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “orthodontie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
orthodontie is uncommon French at frequency #86,990 among 75,470 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔʁ.to.dɔ̃.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Spécialisation de la médecine dentaire dont l’objet est de corriger les mauvaises positions des dents et des mâchoires afin d’optimiser l’occlusion.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for orthodontie, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is orthodontie, spelled O-R-T-H-O-D-O-N-T-I-E.
Definition
- 1Spécialisation de la médecine dentaire dont l’objet est de corriger les mauvaises positions des dents et des mâchoires afin d’optimiser l’occlusion.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “orthodontie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is O-R-T-H-O-D-O-N-T-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɔʁ.to.dɔ̃.si\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.